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Less a work of original theory and more a compendium of facts from other people's books and studies, How Sex Works often feels like a retread of an uncomfortable high school sex-ed class minus the acne. Here's a description of how menstruation works, there's a step by step description of how a man gets an erection; here's the reason why women have wide hips, there's a look at why testicles hang dangerously outside the body. Nothing we don't already know...
...quarter, its slowest pace since 1998. Singapore's GDP contracted an astounding 19.7% in the same period - after shrinking 16.4% in the previous quarter. Hong Kong has yet to report first-quarter numbers, but its economic performance in the final quarter 2008 does not inspire confidence: GDP growth was minus 2.5%. In the same period, the South Korean economy contracted 5.6% while Japan, Asia's largest economy and the world's second biggest, shrank...
...joint address to Congress by one of the party's rising stars, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, was a "disaster for the Republican Party," as conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks put it. The installation of a new party chairman, Michael Steele, could have gone a lot smoother - say, minus the cat fight with Rush Limbaugh or Steele's insulting both the party's moderate wing (he threatened to back primary opponents for supporters of Obama's stimulus) and its social conservatives (he told GQ magazine that abortion is an "individual choice"). The party's 2008 vice-presidential nominee, Sarah...
...grant FlyBy that studying at Harvard is not quite the stuff of dreams (especially in the early morning). That's where the House libraries come in. Many replicate a sense of history and wood-panelled beauty that was all you ever thought Harvard would be (minus the parties). Thus, without further ado, here is your guide to Harvard’s six finest House libraries (with pics) after the jump...
...good news for Ponzi victims is that the IRS will allow the amount of the theft loss to include the investor's unrecovered investment, that is, the principle plus other investments minus withdrawals, but including "fictitious income" as reported in past years, according to Shulman...